From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something ...

A growing number of women in the U.S. are opting to give birth at home rather than at a hospital. Data shows more than 50,000 ...

There has been a perception that the decline is being driven exclusively by highly educated women from privileged backgrounds. But researchers found that teenagers and white women ages 20 to 24 ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely.

Oh, boy. A upstate New York mom couldn’t believe her eyes when she gave birth to a record-breaking baby boy last month – a ...

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Here’s everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. When Tisheila Justice was pregnant with her twins 11 years ago, an idyllic birth plan that ...

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

Abortion is a procedure to terminate a pregnancy. Birth control and emergency contraception do not end a pregnancy — they prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Birth control pills and ...